How Finkelstein Broke the Trauma Bond, and Beat - Traumatic Memory and the Struggle Against Systemic Evil (Paperback)

Following on from the first two books in his 'Genesis Trilogy', Lawrence Swaim tells the amazing stories of people who broke the trauma bond, and created new lives for themselves. Including, among others: Norman Finkelstein (whose parents were both Holocaust survivors) who broke free from the inter-generational trauma in his family system by exposing extensive corruption in his community--and in American society--and by working for social justice in the Middle East; Eric Lomax, a former British soldier in the far east, who broke free from his haunting traumatic memories by meeting and reconciling with the Japanese man who had tortured him fifty years before, with the help of his brave and insightful wife; Gerry Adams who, together with his IRA and Sinn Fein comrades, broke free of the trauma of Northern Ireland's civil war, finally redeeming himself by questioning some of his own assumptions and then dedicating himself to achieving peace in the Good Friday (Peace) Agreement of 1998. This is a definitive book about personal struggle against traumatic memory, but also about how trauma bonding operates in society. It is the author's belief that unresolved feelings of psychological trauma are the wheelhouse of systemic evil, whether of the dictator, the demagogue or the criminal psychopath. It is by manipulating shared traumatic memories that tyrants control people, and get them to do terrible things they would never otherwise do.

General

Imprint:	John Hunt Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2015
Authors:	Lawrence Swaim
Dimensions:	215 x 145 x 48mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	724
ISBN-13:	978-1-78535-020-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General
LSN:	1-78535-020-X
Barcode:	9781785350207

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